Source:
Department of State, State-JCS Meetings: Lot 65 D 172, February
1962. Top Secret. A notation on the cover sheet indicates that it
was a Department of State draft that was not cleared with the
Department of Defense. U. Alexis
Johnson headed the Department of State delegation.
The meeting was held at the Pentagon.

Source: Department of State, Central
Files, 751G.00/2-162. Secret. Drafted on February 8 by Czyzak and Chapman, cleared with
Cottrell, Rice, Chayes, Carlson, and Bamard,
and approved by Harriman.
Also sent to New Delhi and Ottawa. Repeated to Geneva (FECON), London, Vientiane, Bangkok,
Phnom Penh, and CINCPAC.

Source: Department of State, Vietnam Working Group Files: Lot 66 D
193, 1-C.1. Secret Official-Informal. A handwritten note on the
letter by Trueheart asked
Cottrell to pass to
Hilsman copies of the
draft instructions on Co-ordination and Control Measures, noting
that he already had copies of the draft Directive and draft
instruction on Strategic Hamlets.

Source: Harriman Papers, Vietnam 1962. Confidential. The
memorandum was sent to Rowan
through Harriman. Typed at
the top was: “Harriman said
burn this.” In Harrimanʼs
handwriting in the border was the following: “I disagree with this
memo, but you should read it. I believe our press will build this
assistance to Vietnam as our participation in this war—a new war
under President Kennedy—the
Democratic War [?] Party, so skillfully avoided by the Republican
President Eisenhower. The
Press do not belong on these aircraft but can be kept fully informed
by briefings in Saigon by our military or Embassy.
WAH”

Source: Washington National Records
Center, RG 306, USIA/I/S Files: FRC 68 A 4933, Field: Far East
(IAF), 1962. Confidential. This
memorandum is part of a package that included a memorandum of
February 19 from Rowan to
Rusk, Johnson, and Manning in the
Department of State, Bundy
and Salinger at the White
House, and Wilson in USIA, enclosing a draft telegram that
was to be considered at the Honolulu Conference of February 19; and
that was dispatched with indicated changes as telegram 1006 to
Saigon (Document 75); the memorandum of
February 15 from Rowan to
Johnson (Document 62); and a chit of February 15 from
Rowan to Murrow transmitting the latter,
with a handwritten note by Murrow to Wilson indicating that he agreed with Rowan.

Source: Department of State, Vietnam Working Group
Files: Lot 66 D 307, Honolulu Meeting, July 23, 1962. Secret.
Drafted by Wood and Silver. The source text lists four
attachments: (1) Agenda items for the Honolulu Meeting (held on
February 19); (2) the Hilsman
paper “A Strategic Concept for South Viet-Nam” (Document 42); (3) A New York Times story of February 16
on a speech by Nolting; (4)
a partial text of the Nolting speech, February 15. Only the first was
found attached to the source text.

Source:
Kennedy Library, National
Security Files, Vietnam Country Series. Personal and Confidential. A
date stamp on the source text indicates that President Hannah
received it on February 23. Hanna forwarded it under a covering
letter to President Kennedy
on February 26, noting that the contract with the MSU Group had been
terminated by President Diem
and expressing misgivings about ever having gotten involved in
Vietnam in the first place. Also attached to the source text was a
copy of a letter from McGeorge
Bundy to President Hannah of March 26 resuming the
original, thanking him on President Kennedyʼs behalf, and informing him that copies of
the Fishel letter had been distributed to
members of the Presidentʼs staff concerned with
Vietnam.

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Vietnam,
Country Series. Confidential. Drafted by Rowan, cleared with Wilson, Rusk,
Manning, Cottrell, and
Johnson of State,
McNamara and Sylvester of Defense, and Salinger of the White House, and
approved by Harriman;
Rowan signed the telegram
for Rusk. Repeated to CINCPAC for Polad and COMUSMACV. The contents were
discussed at the Secretary of Defenseʼs Conference at Honolulu on
February 19, as indicated in Document 65.
Where significant, differences between this telegram and the draft
considered at Honolulu are indicated in footnotes
below.

Source: Department of State, Central
Files, 751K.5/11-1661. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Drafted
by Maechling; cleared with TF/VN,
S/S, AID/FETA, and AID/AA/F;
and approved by Johnson who
signed for Rusk. Repeated to
CINCPAC for POLAD.